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You'll love it -- it's right off Front St on the waterfront, or also a block south of the 2nd St subway station (Market St Line). It's not over-priced but it's popular so you will want to call and reserve a table just to be safe.

By the way, are you familiar with Tchin-Tchin here on E 49th St? Their shrimp in grand marnier are really something.

Thanks again.

No. When I lived in NYC I always went to this place called Sweet & Tart Cafe which was in a basement dive on Mott St. -- quite sure it's closed now but they still have a branch in Flushing. Speaking of Flushing, I've read that this new Asian multi-story mall just opened and has a bunch of great food places -- called New World Mall and I definitely want to go out there next time I'm in NYC:

may have put on a few pounds since I gave up the cancer sticks 4 months ago, but I wouldnt call 5'11 and 165 "blimping up", are you aware who else is 5'11, 165?

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Willy, boo. Come on. First you shave off 6 years from your age, and now 15 pounds from your weight?

You only have to worry about doing that on adam4adam.

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Great place for ribs - some of the best around and a great 2-4-1 Happy Hour, M-F from 4-7:http://flanigans.net/

and for those real special occasions - if a Brazilian steakhouse - with every cut of meat and all you can eat is your style, you gotta try Chima (dinner for 2, with drinks and tip runs about $130, but so worth it:http://chima.cc/

and I love most every kind of pizza --- of course, I am partial to the one with the most MEAT on it.

My problem, as evidenced by my ever expanding waist line is that I like ALL kinds of food.

I am a self-proclaimed pizza snob. Like south florida, it is also hard to get a good pizza pie here in the pacific northwest. I am currently performing a survey of all the pizza joints in the greater seattle area to find a thin crust new york style pie. The search continues.

What i also factor into appreciation is when I get delicious food at right price. Tasty exotic food one doesnt often make at home, at the right price. That's the genius of big American cities because there are so many delicious cuisines from around the world you can get for a reasonable price. You can pay an arm and a leg for just about any cuisine in a big American city but there is always amazing cheap (or at least reasonable) eats, too.

Switzerland utterly fails on this point, It is improving at a snail pace. The chinese restaurant down the street costs 120-160 bucks for dinner for two. WTF? Its good but about the same quality of any decent neighborhood chinese restaurant in NY. Which I am sure you can get out of in 2011 for 50 bucks for 2. Right?

I have seen a dozen Indian restaurants open and close cause the immigrant owners couldn't figure out the price point to get in a crowd. A very casual somali place is doing well, at about 100 bucks for 2. Young people here seem to be able to deal with that but it yanks my chain.

You have heard of the Big Mac index as expanded by UBS (Union Banque Suisse). Its the hours one must work at the average local wage to afford a Big Mac in that place. Swiss Bank precision. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Mac_Index

So if the average time in the world is 35 minutes of labour to buy a big mac, its only maybe 12 minutes for an American, and 100 minutes for a worker in some cities in Africa, South America. (And they dont factor in the desperately poor - its about the same "middle class" occupations in every country.)

I doubt I could ever get used to 150 bucks for a chinese dinner having been spoilt in the US. By contrast, you can have a delicious fondue for 2 for 60 bucks including wine.

Germany has NO minimum wage and people dont have all that much money. Restaurants are cheap, for Europe! And cheaper than NY too.

The other day i was in a small village and stopped in a little grocery and the guy made me a ham and cheese sandwhich for the standard 10 bucks. I jumped for joy when i started eating it because it actually tasted like a generous and delicious American type of sandwich. The standard one here is a smear of butter, 1 slice of ham, two tiny slices of cheese covering at best 1/2 the bread surface total, and if you are very lucky a miniscule sliver of pickle.

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Another good one near my apartment is Mario's Pizza and Pasta - (they also have great philly steak hoagies):http://mariopizzamiami.com/

Philippa my dear, I'm sure that you've eaten at Miami's Best in Coral Gables, across from our UM campus. It is decadent, greasy, delicious, and cheap. if you haven't been there it's because you're still a Broward queen.

"I have tried hard--but life is difficult, and I am a very useless person. I can hardly be said to have an independent existence. I was just a screw or a cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else."

Willy, boo. Come on. First you shave off 6 years from your age, and now 15 pounds from your weight?

You only have to worry about doing that on adam4adam.

Not only that but she claims to have gained 20-25 lbs -- which means previously she was ~140 lbs. Now, since I'm the same height I can assure you, knowing I was 142 lbs during the lowest point of HIV waisting, that this look is not fetch. 140 lbs and 5'11" = Nazi concentration camp victim. Or a meth head.

ps: just got back from squid and eel sushi and maki at 1225 Raw. Delish, after a showing of Brighton Rock. How cute is Sam Riley? And he looks so great in a suit riding a Vespa.

Then I popped into that tragic establishment called Woody's and there was this queen with c. 1988 Catalina video hair wearing white cut off shorts and loads of botox. She was serving, but I'm not sure what exactly. I was dying to snap a pictar.

Pizza is not my favorite but if I had to pick a place to have one it would be a little place in Bethesda MD (Geppetto's on Old Georgetown Road). I remember the little pepperoni slices were crispy and curled up a bit and the crust was not too thick. Thin and crispy crust IMHO is best. If I have one slice of pizza every 3 years, thats enough for me. Perhaps if I tried true NYC pizza I would change my mind but after years of it being served up to the masses in work meetings, its nothing I would venture out for.

"Pizza" is such a global word and has been for a long time. There is great "pizza" all over the place. There's a turkish kebab joint that serves a great "pizza". I like classic "italian american" thick crust "sicilian" pizza (made by mexicans in my favorite NY joint) just as much as a pie in Sicily and they seem to be quite distant cousins, 3rd removed.

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It does not come by the slice. It is a "pizza like" flat bread with tomatoes and meat and they roll it around kebaby fixings. and even the Kebab itself if you want.

I am a regular falafel eater if the joint can make it fresh tasting and its the sauce and salad that really makes 75% of the taste of the sandwich. The Kebab meat is too often scary, even in a place that makes great fresh falafel.

I ordered a Kebab the other day in an unknown joint in another city and was enjoying the unusual richness for a few bites when it occurred to me, "that is not yogurt". Sure enough the white sauce was mayonnaise. A rather barfarific realisation. The Swiss will also make a "curry chicken" sandwhich that is about 50% mayonnaise. Add insult to injury, 50% of those include pineapple. BARF.

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Although I enjoy the countless cuisines found in London I think I will pass on Icelandic, what follows is from

Arnaldur Indridason----Hypothermia---- after buying pickled liver sausage---" On the same shopping trip Erlendur had also bought some sour -lamb rolls , fatty Brest meat on the bone and a portion of sheep's head in jelly that he kept in a tub of pickling whey out on his balcony . "

The pickled liver sausage he eats with porridge.

I was served porridge and dried fish for breakfest on the Turkish Greek border it was vile.

Happy eatingtheyer

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Oh, and you may recall this about Geno's -- see those signs in the window? This is that place that requires you to speak English only. Too bad Joey Vento, the nasty owner, croaked last week. Michelle Malkin pauses for some reflection.

I figured it was safe to eat there with him buried. I mostly avoided the place the last several years even though it's just five blocks away.

Oh, and you may recall this about Geno's -- see those signs in the window? This is that place that requires you to speak English only. Too bad Joey Vento, the nasty owner, croaked last week. Michelle Malkin pauses for some reflection.

I figured it was safe to eat there with him buried. I mostly avoided the place the last several years even though it's just five blocks away.

I member that old man, @ at least what he looked like in 78/79, and that was ages ago way before most of you were in your teens

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Its toasted walnuts over fresh spinach tonight for me... with grapes, sliced mango, and fresh peaches as a side dish. I will have a treat tomorrow when I go back to the Japanese place for a nice hibachi cooked STEAK!!

Not only that but she claims to have gained 20-25 lbs -- which means previously she was ~140 lbs. Now, since I'm the same height I can assure you, knowing I was 142 lbs during the lowest point of HIV waisting, that this look is not fetch. 140 lbs and 5'11" = Nazi concentration camp victim. Or a meth head.

it blows my lunch of 2 Arbys Beef n Cheddars out of the water (with large potato cakes of course).

You had two Arbys Beef n Cheddars today after that lunch you had yesterday? ...there are no words

And while avocados have the "good" type of fat, they're still astronomically high in calories. You'd be OK if you'd had sushi for lunch, but alas you did not. (unlike me who had sushi for dinner last night)

You had two Arbys Beef n Cheddars today after that lunch you had yesterday? ...there are no words

At this rate La Guille is gonna be 280 pounds in no time. Teh sex0r.

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